Brent Jacobs
Technical Lead at Fivecast
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolBrent Jacobs is a Technical Lead based in Adelaide with 11 years of experience delivering pragmatic, scalable software across Ruby/Rails, C#, Java, and modern JS frameworks. He blends hands-on engineering—API, Web UX, database and authentication design—with systems and distributed architecture skills to modernise legacy platforms and accelerate delivery. Known for fostering open team communication, he drives continuous improvement through agile practices, inclusive retrospectives and mentorship that promote autonomy and technical growth. His career progression from customer service to lead engineering roles reflects a strong customer-focused lens and an ability to translate stakeholder needs into robust technical solutions. At Fivecast and previously Carl Zeiss Vision he’s combined strategic leadership with day-to-day coding, ensuring fast feedback loops and measurable operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering (Honours), Software Engineering, Software Engineering (Honours), Software Engineering at University of South AustraliaConcordia College
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Github Skills (139)
cloud-computing10
linq10
windows10
javascript-framework10
entity-framework10
change-tracking10
javascript10
rubygems10
linux10
dotnet10
efcore10
html10
database10
mobile-first10
schema-migrations10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
br3nt/proc_evaluate
Oct 2017 - Nov 2023
Allow evaluation of variables, procs, and lambdas with the same level of flexibility.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
br3nt/br3nt.github.io
Mar 2019 - Jul 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 78 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 5 months
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